One of the things that bothers me most about having no plot is that I find it difficult to pace the story. I write events pretty close together, and then remember that I have more than 45.000 words left to write, and I can’t possibly see how I’m going to spread out the important scenes enough to make it to the end, how I’m going to pad them to make them solid and a decent length and whatever else I’m going to write in between of the most important scenes.
I’ve already started writing one of the really important scenes, but then realised I’d put the event in too soon and I’ve pushed it back for later use. I wish I knew how to plot, but it seems like I just can’t look around the corner.
Another point I’m struggling with is the balance between funniness and seriousness. I wanted very much to make this a comedic story, but I find myself writing a serious scene and wondering whether or not that clashes too much. Does anyone have any tips?
Anyway, I was struggling pretty much until dinner, which I put off having until I had at least hit the 1667 + 1667 word mark. But what they say is true. Your brain needs food, so after dinner, I was on a roll again. Found myself insanely distracted though, I don’t quite know by what. Chubby Checker provided musical accompaniment throughout the evening. It was the stroke of midnight (the end of day 2) when I reached the deadline. I wrote a little over 1670 words yesterday and my total word count is 4284. I can’t make up my mind about whether it is depressing or not that that’s nearly 5% of the required total amount of words.
4 comments:
Heey, Loved reading this post dutch girl :D Keep it up !
this is my first info about this project. certainly worth the try. although i doubt mí abilities, since i am no english native speaker. but you are dutch, right?
Yep, Dutch, that's me :) But nanowrimo doesn't necessarily have to be done in English.
the portrait is so nice. I think you should be very interest in painting.
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